Despite being the #1 recruiting trend for 2018 for businesses, and despite decades of trying to improve workforce diversity demographics in the workplace, the commercial sector has made little progress. Will this different way of thinking about diversity make our organizations better? MORE

More good news is that studies show that companies with about 30% gender diversity on their boards actually outperform those with no women by a wide margin measured through multiple metrics (e.g., The bad news is that 15% is paltry for the Fortune 500, and it looks like midcap firms’ leadership teams may be even less gender diverse. And this change isn’t only for social justice reasons – there are hard metrics to motivate it too. MORE

When women are more than tokens in leadership – representing over 30 percent of the team in diverse business specialties – their organizations perform demonstrably better. Check out the resources in the InPower Coaching EQ at Work and Soft Skills Research Index. MORE

Hayal has extensive experience on topics including (among others) the evolution of the gig & on-demand economies, global talent strategy, workforce flexibility, and diversity. Think of courses about the art of giving feedback, how to become agile, aiming for diversity and many, many more. MORE

Hayal has extensive experience on topics including (among others) the evolution of the gig & on-demand economies, global talent strategy, workforce flexibility, and diversity. Think of courses about the art of giving feedback, how to become agile, aiming for diversity and many, many more. MORE

Back then people analytics—using statistical insights from employee data to make talent management decisions—was still a provocative idea with plenty of skeptics who feared it might lead companies to reduce individuals to numbers. We have charts and graphs to back us up. So f off.” MORE

Organizations have tools such as personality assessments, multi-rater feedback, mentoring, and coaching to help individuals understand their own motivations and behaviors. Tracey Burton, former director of diversity at Target Corporation, says working with differences is the key to breakthrough results. “I I think the greatest benefit we have found is that diversity drives innovation. Competency #4 – Agility and Change in Cultural Identity. MORE

To succeed, we needed to change the culture in HR and build the skillset to better leverage data and impact HR topics in a new way. An effective change management plan would be critical to success and there were three pillars to our approach: gamification, sponsorship and communication. MORE

Suggestion #1: Don’t fear diversity! The truth is that the workforce is becoming larger and more diverse every year, so ignoring diversity isn’t really an option anymore. In fact, ignoring diversity is actually doing companies more harm than good. MORE

They provide a basis for coaching the employee on how to improve performance. Identifying the needed competencies make recruiting easier and can help in coaching and training employees. Attitude and personal characteristics are harder to identify or develop, but are equally important in demonstrating a needed competency in a position. Project Management. Change management. Managing and/or developing others. Diversity. Self-Management. MORE

Leadership is a key driver to change. It is crucial for leadership teams to support diversity and inclusion awareness – a point that stood out to me when reviewing Where’s the Dial Now ? Gender equality isn’t only a women’s issue. MORE

Even though HR is known to be a female dominated profession, there’s still much room for improvement in the top C-suite positions, especially when it comes to closing the gender pay gap (something we will know in more detail following data received from the Equal Pay Day 2018 deadline). Angela Trombatore , global content, social & marketing innovation manager. Chris Havrilla , Global Human Capital Management, Technology & Analytics Strategist and Consultant. MORE